Rail-joint.



I UNI ED STATES PAT NT i l i OFFICE.

OSCAR ONEAL, or rREnoXT, mcnreax. j i

. RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application filed July 23, 1907. Serial No. 385,165.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR ONEAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the county of Ncwaygo and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the folowing is a specification.

This invention relates to joints for railroad rails; and it has for its objects to provide a jointof simple and improved construction whereby the ends of abutting rails will be su )orted firmly against displacement.

iNith these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be herein at teri ull described and particularly pointed out in t 1e claims.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the u'ecise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to, when desired.

In the drawings:Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the a plication of the invention to the abutting cm s of two rails. bottom plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 33 in Fig. 1.

Corresponding )arts in the several figures are denoted by him characters of reference.

The improved rail joint is com )osed of two principal members namely the chair A and a shoe or binding member B. The chair A comprises a vertically disposed rail-web engaging plate or member 1 having a laterally extending flange 2 adapted to rest upon the foot flange of the rail, adjacent o the inner side of the latter. The chair A is provided with supporting plates 3-3 and 4, extending laterally from the marginal edge of the flange 2 beneath the rail, which latter is designated C; the )lates 3-3 being disposed at the ends of the chair, and the plate 4 midway between the. ends.- The chair is formed with transversely disposed webs or flanges 5-5 at the ends thereof, adjacent to the supporting plates 33, and with intermediate webs or flanges 66 adjacent to the ends of the supporting plate 4; said webs or flanges being Fig. 2 is a.

formed to surround the chair except upon the side of the'latter abutting upon the rail.

reinforce the said chair, and enable it to resist any stress or strain to which the rail supported thereby may be subjected.

The shoe or binding member B, which is adapted to be supported upon the ends of the plates 33 and 1 that project beyond the rail flange, is provided with a web-engaging flange 7 at its inner edge and with a strengthening flange 8 near its outer edge; said flanges being connected with each other by end flanges 9. The flanges 1 and 7 of the chair A and the shoe B res ectively are adapted to engage the under Si( e of the head 10 of the rail, which is thereby supported. The parts, when as embled, are connected by bolts 11 extending through the flanges 1 and 7 and through the web of the rail; other bolts, 12, being used to secure the shoe B upon the supporting plates 3 and 4 of the chair. l.

The end flanges 9 of the shoe are formed in alinement with the webs or flanges 5 at the ends of the chair; and the shoe is provided with a centrally thickened or reinforced 01- tion 13 at its central portion, exten ing between the webs 6-6 of the chair,- this being the point which is subjected to the greatest strength. The vertically disposed webs 5 and 6 adjacent to the supporting plates 3 and 4 will greatly reinforce said supporting plates, and render breakage practically impossible under the stress to which the joint willbe subjected in practice.

The operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, by those Ssiiiid in the art to which it appertains. The construction of the improved joint is simple and effective, and it is easily applied in position for o oration. V QHavmg tus described the invention, What webs on the supporting plates; a shoe or.

binding member having a web-engagingv flange, a strengthening flange spaced therefrom, connectingflanges at the ends thereof and an intermediate thickened or reinforced portion; and connecting members extending a through the web engaging portions of the shoe and the cha1r, and through the shoe and;

the rail supporting plates of ale chair.

i v \I i In test1 nony whereof, I affix my signature 

